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Advanced remote visual inspection equipment from Ashtead Technology Rentals helped one client explore a confined drainage and water storage network without having to venture underground himself, reducing the risk of injury and use of confined space personnel. Gordon Mills from Free Drains contacted the rental specialists when he needed to carry out a special examination of two large storage tanks ...

A new state of the art telescopic inspection pole camera with zoom from Medit Inc. is now on the market. The INSPEKTOR Zoom camera is a big leap forward from most of the competition, both in terms of functionality and available options. The pole length is from 4.1 ft. or 1.24 meters in the collapsed state to 10.9 ft. or 3.3 ...

The new LookSee PRO chimney inspection camera specially built for chimney inspections is now on the market. Unlike general purpose cameras, this tool has been designed exclusively for chimney checkups, maintenance and repair, and that is what makes the difference. This camera system features a 25 meter long (82 ft.) ...

We have uploaded the technical specs of our borehole cameras range. In cooperation with MPI,we retail and support the following range of products: Underwater camera video systems for viewing water wells and vertical and horizontal boreholes Finding ground water pollution and ground water contamination inflows into wells Inspection camera systems ...

Available as an option on new systems or as an upgrade to existing ones, the new LED illumination option for QuickView® enhances short- to mid-range zoom inspection of storm and sewer pipes. It offers better diffusion for viewing near targets, as well as other benefits commonly associated with LED lighting: extended life (up to 10,000 hours), instant start-up, variable intensity, exceptional ...

The camera head of the new VeriSight Pro 360 remotely pans and tilts to give an operator maximum maneuverability when inspecting drain lines. A joystick on the control unit rotates the camera indefinitely in either direction and tilts it ±135 degrees. “Since we launched it two years ago, VeriSight Pro has really lit up the push camera market,” says Richard Lindner, President of ...

Progressive are known for responding to urgent requests from clients and the call received on Thursday of last week was no different. The call came from a major German refinery and went something like this once the introductions were completed... What’s the issue? We suspect that the internal aluminium floating roof of one of our light oil product tanks is damaged ...

Several months ago Progressive were approached by a nationwide waste treatment company to undertake work on a tank containing a highly flammable, high toxic and highly corrosive material called Chlorosaline. The material was contained in a stainless steel tank at the treatment facility and the client had been draining liquid from it until they believed it had either stopped due to the discharge ...

The inspection and maintenance of vital resource facilities is an integral part of any regions health and stability management program. Providing consistent output while driving down inspection and maintenance costs is a key activity for those involved in the provision of such services, and requires the monitoring and assessment of relevant new technologies and techniques. The use of divers ...

If you were probing the depths of a redundant nuclear reactor with a remotely controlled device resembling a hedgehog that toppled over when cornering, what would you do? A Dounreay senior design engineer pondered the problem and promptly dashed home and removed the casters from his living room couch. The low-tech solution was tested during trials in a mock-up of the pipework inside Britain's ...

FLIR Systems has just launched the new T400-series and T400bx-series of thermal imaging cameras. The company has designed the latest models to appeal to experienced thermal imaging camera users, such as service providers and maintenance managers in industrial facilities and utilities. The T400bx-series has been designed specifically with professional building inspectors in mind. The T400-series ...

In the July issue of Indoor Environment Connections, an article about infrared cameras (IR) is garnering a lot of attention. “How I Use My IR Camera: Field Cases for Thermography” details the experiences of Ed Chambers, CIEC, CBST. Mr. Chambers is the owner of EC2, Inc. which is based in the Chicago area. According to the article, authored by Mr. Chambers, ...

One of the world’s leading manufacturers of thermal imaging equipment has launched a promotion to bring the advantages of thermal imaging to as many users as possible. FLIR systems has created a number of promotional packages for its T-series thermal imaging camera. The packages offer professional users a complete thermal imaging solution by including computer software which can generate ...

For all pipe inspections – the products by Kummert GmbH are ideally suited for every occasion. Both in small nominal diameters starting at DN50 and in pipes up to DN300. Whether you need rotate-and-pivot-cameras or cameras navigating laterals – with the inspection systems by Kummert GmbH, no pipe run will remain undetected. Special emphasis should be placed on the two inspection systems Compact ...

The 27th of February, 2014 was the day we would deliver goods. We came to the pellet mill workshop again at around 10 o'clock in the morning. The container truck from the port had been ready to load the cargoes . I’d recorded the procedures from packing to delivering with my camera. All the cargoes were packed into 111 wooden boxes and loaded into a 40 ...

Ashtead Technology is delighted to announce the addition of the latest Olympus technology to its rental fleet of industrial videoprobes. “The new IPLEX NX offers dramatic improvements to existing imaging technology and can help locate defects that were previously invisible” says Branch Manager Alan Hasson. “With a host of new features, this instrument improves the accuracy of ...

Following recent changes to private sewer ownership and in anticipation of a heightened demand for pipe inspection work, Ashtead Technology has expanded its fleet of inspection crawlers and push-rod cameras. Ashtead Technology's Alan Hasson says, "More pipes will need to be inspected as a result of the new regulations, so we have made additional investments in our instrument fleet in order to ...

Leading instrumentation specialists Ashtead Technology believes it has the latest and most advanced selection of FLIR thermal cameras available for hire within the UK. General Manager James Carlyle believes that a variety of options is essential for thermography: “There are simple applications for which it is only necessary to identify cold or hot spots, so an entry-level device is the most ...

At the IFAT, the 15th International Trade Fair for Water - Sewage - Refuse – Recycling, Kummert Inspektionssysteme presented the new flexible camera “CamFlex”, designed for inspections of branching pipe systems, along with other product innovations.Held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for environmental technologies took place from May 5th – ...

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